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Yes, but over 90% of the kids who get in prepped for years. IF you don't believe me just go to a prep center some weekend and look at how many kids are there. There's good reason there are so many prep options here.[/quote]

Faulty logic.  Lots of people at prep centers doesn't mean 90% got in thru prep.  Going to a prep center is not a guarantee of admission.  Nearly everyone I know who went to Curie did not get in to TJ or AOS.[/quote]

Actually, no, their logic seems based on fact. Especially since just one of the many NVA prep centers claimed to have accounted for 30% of the entering class. Also, in my DD AAP class, the teacher polled the kids to see who had prepped for admission, and they said almost everyone raised their hands. I know it's not formal, but it sure seems like kids who are honest and unashamed of admitting this is far more reliable than a bunch of overzealous tiger parents. I get it you want to downplay this to help keep the competition down but I think the cats out of the bag.[/quote]

Again with the faulty logic.  30% of admissions, but how many applicants?  I suspect they had way more attending the classes, based on all these people I speak to who send their kids to Curie.  Now if some of these 6th/7th graders get kids in, I will have to concede they are helping, because we are talking about kids I would judge as having no chance. I know several now 9th graders who similarly did not get in, who were better students than the ones I am considering not qualified.[/quote]

Here's the thing - if indeed Curie had an enormous number of applicants in order to account for their huge share of the freshmen class each year, that means you have a large number of Indian families who are paying $4-5K and sending their kids to hundreds of hours of additional prep [b]because they felt forced to by the system[/b]. Parents shouldn't feel like it's a requirement to drop resources that many folks do not have or cannot afford to allocate to boutique prep in order to have a fair shot at admissions.

We should all agree - obviously - that even if the Curie course didn't result in guaranteed admission, that it almost certainly boosted students' scores on the admissions battery at least on some level. Remember that in the old system, students had to achieve specific percentile scores on all three exams in order to be considered for admissions at all - the exams were the only metric that culled the field from "applicants" to "semifinalists" and was thus a hard barrier to entry. If a student scored in the 99th percentile on math and science but the 74th percentile on the ACT Aspire English, that student could not be considered for admission.

I shudder to think of how many well-qualified applicants for TJ over those three years were booted out of the process because of inflated scores from mediocre kids who didn't even get in to TJ but spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours to fail in their mission.[/quote]

They felt forced to by [b]some [/b]system but not by that system.  You're conflating the two systems.  They're not the same.  [/quote]

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